Independent Component 1

• LITERAL
  (a) “I, Donovan Behen, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents ____ hours of work.”
  (b) John Behen
•       Forbes small business ownership section
•       Positive coaching alliance
• (d) Explain what you completed.    
•       What I've done is set the ground for players to play during a football season through AVY. 
• INTERPRETIVE 
  Defend your work and explain its significance to your project and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.  

• APPLIED
• How did the component help you understand the foundation of your topic better?  Please include specific examples to illustrate this. 
•  My component furthered my knowledge on what is like to run a small business in set up for a busy season since the planning, financial set up and meetings were all left on my shoulders and my mentor was virtually hands off, only stepping in when I asked for help.

Lesson 2 Reflection

1.What are you most proud of in your Lesson 2 Presentation and why?
My hook since it grabbed the attention of my audience and held it in a fun way.

2. a.     What assessment would you give yourself on your Lesson 2 Presentation (self-assessment)?

       AE       P          AP       CR       NC

     b.     Explain why you deserve that grade using evidence from the Lesson 2 component contract.
                   I did what was required on the the contact but did go above by adding extra sources and I thought my activity was one of the better ones in class.

3. What worked for you in your Lesson 2?
My presentation went well, I did not rush as much as the 10min to get all my information across and my activity displayed my answer very well.

4. What didn't work? If you had a time machine, what would you have done differently to improve your Lesson 2?
I would have shortened by hook a little bit as it took 3 minutes and that is a lot of time.

5. What do you think your answer #2 is going to be?
Removing the parent bias towards their kids. 

Blog 14: Third Interview Preparation

                       

1.  Who do you plan to interview?  What is this person's area of expertise?
The president of AYSO
2.  Verify that you have called your interviewee to schedule an interview.  What is the date and time of the interview? 
February 11th at 4pm
3.  Phrase an open-ended question that will help you find research resources that would help to answer the EQ.
How can kids learn from and enjoy sports?
4.  Phrase an open-ended question that will help you think about other useful activities you might do to help you answer the EQ (IC2, possible experts to talk to, etc).
What is the best part of sports to players?
5.  Phrase two open-ended questions that help you to understand your interviewee's perspective on an aspect of your EQ. 
What helps players have the most fun in youth sports?
How can this be consistently provided?

Blog 13: 10 Hour Mentorship Check-In

1.   Where are you doing your mentorship?
AVY Flag Football

2.   Who is your contact?  What makes this person an expert?
John Behen was apart of youth sports for many years, and has helped develop a youth racing organization in Orange County. During this he helped negotiate relationships between OSQMRA (the racing organization), Orange Show Speedway, and USCA (the governing body of sprint car racing and off - road racing). He has also spent years as a baseball, basketball  and football coach.


3.   How many  hours have you done during the school year? (Summer Mentorship Hours and Mentorship Hours should be reflected separately in your Senior Project Hours log located on the right hand side of your blog).

110

4.   Succinctly summarize what you did, how well you and your mentor worked together, and how you plan to complete the remaining hours.
My mentor and I have put on 2 flag football seasons for youths. This includes the scheduling, ordering of venders, advertising, contracting, set up, e-mails/phone calls, contracts, and coaching of the AVY Flag-football league. We have worked well together and I believe completed the required amount of hours already.

Blog 12: Holiday Project Update Due

1.  It is important to consistently work on your senior project, whether it is break or we are in school.  What did you do over the break with your senior project?
-Over the break I planned out the Winter 2016 season of AVY Flag Football. This included setting up registration, meetings with vendors and possible advertisers, and equipment checks. Also had contract meetings with the City of San Dimas Parks and Rec. through out break.

2.  What was the most important thing you learned from what you did, and why?  What was the source of what you learned?




-I learned that if you want something done to nag until it is completed. My source of this was the miscommunication with the city as one of the employees went home early being sick and I was e-mailing them asking for paper work, but since they weren't in the office and I only e-mailed this wasn't figured out until I called them at home the next day.

3.  Your third interview will be a 10 question interview related to possible answers for your EQ. Who do you plan to talk to and why?
-I plan on interviewing the President of San Dimas Little League. I plan to interview him because Little League brings in over a hundred kids to play each season and is a nationally know youth sport organization.

Blog 11: Lesson 1 Reflection

1. What are you most proud of in your lesson, and why?
I am most proud of making time, as I very nearly went over since I had a lot of information I wanted to present to the class.

2. What assessment would you give yourself on your lesson? Explain why you earned that grade using evidence from the component contract.
I would give myself a P, as I did make time, discuss my mentorship, referenced 3 sources, and discussed 5 main points. My conclusion could have been stronger but it was don't and my hook I thought was clever and (in longer lesson) can be built on.
3. If you could go back, what would you change about your lesson?  How can you use that knowledge to give a better Lesson 2?
My lesson did go well, but I wish I could have gone more in-depth with the business portion of my business and next lesson I'll look to move that topic towards the front of my presentation.

Blog 10: Interview 2 Reflection

1. Please explain how you are spending your mentorship time (Is it at a workplace or somewhere else?  Are you shadowing?  Are you able to do tasks that are meaningfully related to the topic?  If so, what?  Are there other people who are experts in the location?  Etc...)

I am spending my mentorship hours in a workplace setting up fields, answering questions for parents, coaching my own team, and then tearing down fields. 

2.  How did you find your mentor?  How did you convince this person to help you?
   
My mentor wasn't difficult to find, the hard part was convincing him to loan me the cash to buy over the league and having him help me out with the management until I am 18. Once this was in place it was easy to have my mentor agree to be my schooling mentor for this project.

3. How would you rate your comfort level with your mentor at this point in your relationship?  How does this relate to the time you've spent so far at mentorship/with this person?

I feel very comfortable with my mentor being I've known him for so long (my whole life).

4. What went well in this interview?  Why do you think so?  What do you still need to improve?  How do you know?  How will you go about it?

I believe this interview went well, at least better than last time. The point of the interview seemed clear, but the length of the answers can be adjusted in time. I can go about this by cutting answers a little shorter or asking smaller questions.

Interview:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bx-BoNqTy86HMDFIMUdQd2U5Snc/view?usp=sharing